Albert Boer

Albert Boer
Born	1935 Beverwijk, Netherlands
Died	October 3, 2002(2002-10-03) (aged 66–67) Groet, Netherlands
Occupation	Author Sculptor
Alma mater	Morehouse College and Spelman College, Atlanta University
Notable works	Kamp Schoorl

Albert Boer (1935 – 3 October 2002) was a Dutch author who was known primarily as the author of Kamp Schoorl, a Dutch-language book about the concentration camp of the same name.

Boer was born in Beverwijk, Netherlands in 1935. He came to the United States in the mid-1950s and studied at Morehouse College and Spelman College of Atlanta University (now Clark Atlanta University). He worked in the civil rights movement including Settlement Houses (United South End Settlements, Franklin-Wright Settlement and Elizabeth Peabody House). He was an accomplished sculptor in wood, clay and bronze; for example, he made the sculpture of Harriet Tubman in the Harriet Tubman House. He lived in two houseboats, one in Fort Point Channel and one in Schoorl, Nederlands. Boer moved back to the Netherlands in the mid-1980s and bought a pension (a type of guest house) which he named the Sneeuwgans (the snow goose).

He then wrote the book Kamp Schoorl. He also published an english-language book in 1966 which was a chronology of the United South End Settlements (USES) titled The Development of USES. The book covered the history of USES in the period of 1891–1966 and they sponsored him to write it. He was also interviewed by Ed Logue, the city planner for a historical and community organizer prospective of the South End community and the changes he saw happen in his work as a worker and later as a Program Director of the Lincoln House in 1976. He died on 3 October 2002 in Groet, Netherlands.